HHS Talking Point #9 – Hard Cases

Posted on March 9, 2012

This is a series of short talking points that we have provided to our volunteers as information they can use in speaking out in various ways against the ObamaCare mandate on contraception. Feel free to use, build on, or share.

I have a life-threatening reason to not get pregnant. Why in the world would the Church be against helping me and my husband with birth control? I guess they don’t really care if my life is threatened by an unplanned pregnancy.

When properly practiced, NFP works. There are women in situations similar to yours who continue to use NFP to prevent a pregnancy. In some cases, they also use a fertility monitor to help confirm their days of fertility and infertility. Some cycles may require more abstinence than usual, but when such sacrifices are made within the context of love, a couple’s overall intimacy is deepened and their relationship is strengthened.

Even in serious situations the Church does not approve of unnatural methods of birth control because they completely alter the meaning of the acts of marital love. The Church is about protecting and safeguarding sexual love, and cannot approve of contracepted intercourse which conveys a message that falls far short of the love God calls us to in marriage.

SusanAt least you have some options in the US. I live in Canada, a coutnry where there is (for eg.) No abortion law in any of our provinces. It is sheer madness up here re. civil liberties .same-sex marriage, abortion, contraception, IVF . freedom of religion is becoming non-existant here . I pray that left-leaning, so-called progressive Catholics and other denominations, as this goes beyond Catholicism, wake up and realize what harm our silence is doing and that social justice’ for eg. begins in the womb and does not include promoting sexual irresponsibility and perversion.God Bless You. V.

I saw David Axelrod last week trying to expialn the President’s anti-Catholic initiative. He looked like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He kept licking his lips, as in nerves not ravenous wolf, looking like a deer in the headlights. When Stalin, during WWII, asked how many divisions the Pope had, Pius XII responded, You can tell my son Joseph that he will meet my divisions in heaven .Methinks Axelrod and Obama are about to discover how many slightly before/if they get to heaven …